CHAPTER 5: Harker
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Harker sat in the chair with his head in his hands, trying to make a deal with God for the first time since he’d been twelve. It’d taken him four years of destroyed dreams to realize that praying was a waste of time and that his mother’s family wasn’t coming to get him. But for this...for Alison, he’d try again. He’d do anything...absolutely anything to not lose her.
“Oh, look. She’s smiling,” said Merri.
“She looks just like her mother,” said Ellie.
Merri, Ellie, Aunt Tiff and Estelle were over by the baby crib, adoring Irene.
Merri and Ellie had stayed at Alison’s mother’s house after Estelle and Aunt Tiff had left for the hospital. They’d contacted all the guests who hadn’t arrived yet and then had cleaned up everything before heading to the hospital.
